Nowhere, Exactly by M.G. Vassanji

M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades, drawing deeply on his own transnational upbringing and intimate understanding of the unique challenges and perspectives born from leaving one's home to resettle in a new land. The question of identity, of how to configure and see oneself within this new land, is one such challenge faced. But Vassanji suggests that a more fundamental and slippery endeavour than establishing one's identity is how, if ever, we can establish a sense of belonging. Can we ever truly belong in this new home? Did we ever truly belong in the home we left? Where exactly do we belong? For many, the answer is nowhere exactly.

Combining brilliant prose, thoughtful, candid observation, and a lifetime of exploring how we as individuals are shaped by the places and communities in which we live and the history that haunts them,Nowhere, Exactlyexamines with exquisite sensitivity the space between identity and belonging, the immigrant experience of both loss and gain, and the weight of memory and nostalgia, guilt and hope felt by so many of those who leave their homes in search of new ones. (From Doubleday Canada)

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M.G. Vassanji is a Toronto-based author of Indian descent born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania.His original works includeEverything There Is,A Delhi ObsessionandThe Book of Secrets. He was the recipient of the 1994 and 2003Giller Prizefor best work of fiction for his booksThe Books of SecretsandThe In-Between World of Vikram Lall.